"Is under a campaign of defamation": the former official attacks after the storm in the 4000 case | Israel today

After the storm last week - the former senior official attacks again:

the cross-examination of Dr. Yifat Ben Chai Segev, former chairman of the Cable and Satellite Council, as part of Case 4000, continues today (Monday) in the Jerusalem District Court.

At the beginning of her testimony, she wanted to tell the Jerusalem District Judges: "Since my testimony, I find myself under slanders and under gratuitous leaks. Their whole purpose is to scare me from telling the truth. These are both major means of communication and social networks."

As you may remember, last week the prosecution demanded that Dr. Chai Segev be declared a hostile witness after she claimed that her investigation procedure in the case was improper: "I told the investigator not to put words in my mouth, and that he made a false and incorrect assumption in front of me."

Since Ben Chai-Shagav did not contact the prosecutor's office regarding the matter, Judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman asked the prosecution to look into the matter and prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh replied that the matter would be looked into.

Ben Chai Segev later said that she brought relevant documents which the defense claims were not presented to her: "I gathered documents that I don't know if they were presented, I photographed several copies, professional opinions, including a discussion protocol that prove that the discussion and decisions were flawlessly professional without bias without any extraneous considerations." . 

The continuation of the discussion dealt with the background for promoting the Bezek-Yes business.

Ben Chai Segev said that the regulatory actions for the merger began even before the appointment of the state witness Shlomo Filber as CEO of the Ministry of Communications, but already during the time of CEO Avi Berger, but that blocked the proceedings.

According to her, she applied to receive a budget for an economic opinion on the subject, but Berger did not give one.

"When I applied personally, I was told budgetary considerations, the agenda, can be seen expressed in the letter to the Minister and the Prime Minister, in which I say that despite my efforts to approve financial advice to the council, I am encountering financial difficulties."

Netanyahu's defense attorney Baez Ben Zur said that Amir Barkan from the Prime Minister's Office said that Berger's position to set conditions for the merger as well as withholding a budget for an opinion was "strange".

"Amira Barkan described Berger's position, so that Yes Company's request to approve the merger was legitimate, for reasons of increasing competition, on the other hand the position presented by Berger, that he has affairs with Bezeq" said Attorney Ben Tzur "therefore he says that on the face of it there is a condition Speaking in real time seemed strange to me."

Ben Chai Segev responded: "He took the words out of my mouth, I remember very well the conversation that followed, I made the same claims, I said in my testimony, I saw it as an act of force (by Berger) that was disproportionate, and to a certain extent, not legal, contrary to the rules and instructions , I spoke with my voice in real time"

According to the assessment of the defense in the courtroom, her testimony may continue for part of Tuesday as well.

David Sharan, former director of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office, will probably also testify tomorrow.

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